"If your city is a city that promotes diversity, you're going to be head and shoulders about those who do not," said Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer.

"We just celebrated gay days, and people spent lots and lots of money. We're going to have those same people here and hopefully coming to Orlando to get married here, spend their honeymoon here," Stevens said.

Two commissioners voted against supporting the measure, saying it was a legal matter, not a council matter.

A hearing in the lawsuit is scheduled for Miami-Dade Circuit Court on July 2.